Ivan Boesky

[Cross-posted from the original on SuperMogul.] Now a septuagenarian, Ivan Boesky is making a comeback – in film. Disregarding his prior career as an adult film star (his work in “Junk Bondage III – The Downgrade” is groundbreaking), Boesky will be ripping off America’s favorite retard dim bulb, Forest Gump, on the silver screen. Forrest […]

We’re not sure how we could have missed out mentioning yesterday’s very special anniversary—the seventieth birthday of Ivan Boesky. Born March 6, 1937 in Detroit, Boesky became a central figure in the most infamous insider trading scandal of the nineteen eighties. He was a arbitrageur who amassed a fortune trading on difference in perceived risk […]

The AP has just discovered Ivan Boesky’s ex-wife’s essay anthology, Seema Says: One of the promotional blurbs on the back of the recently published anthology of columnist Seema Boesky’s work says her offerings “have made thousands of readers smile, scratch their heads and wonder.” Indeed. Wonder things like: How fabulous is it to be obscenely […]

If you’re feeling nostalgic and you’ve got a little over $699 burning a hole in your Brooks Brothers chinos, someone’s eBay-ing a letter from Ivan Boesky to one of his clients (Lyman Bloomingdale of Bloomingdale Properties) at First Manhattan Co., dated January 15, 1969, informing the client of his departure from First Manhattan Co., to […]

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May 5, 2006 at 9:42 AM

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Mary Jo White was the top federal prosecutor in New York City during Bill Bratton’s first run as the Big Apple’s top cop, and she learned a few lessons from his “broken windows” theory: Clean a place up a little, and throw the fucking book at the street urchins who are messing things up with […]